Posts by Steve Barnes
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A big problem with drug policy is the fact that lawmakers feel the need to "do something about the problem" without properly assessing what the problem actually is. Instead, it is driven as if from a moral standpoint, "drugs are bad mmmkay?"
A sensible legalisation (say available in licensed premises) would make it much harder for the people health research tells us shouldn't be smoking drugs (youth) to do so, because the black market would largely disappear.
If only it were that simple, we still have problem teenage drinkers but then those kids grew up worshiping the Steinlarger All Blacks, if the powers that be were to look at the real reason cannabis is a gateway drug, the fact that you can only get it from illicit drug dealers (because it's so bad to grow your own) then sensible legislation could reduce, if not eliminate, the black market for all drugs.
Whilst we are told about "how much this problem costs our country" there is never a breakdown between how much it costs us, in terms of illness or lost "man hours" and how much we spend on enforcement. It seems to me that successive Governments are sadly lacking in their understanding of the relationship between humanoids and cannabinoids or opiates and opinions.
And I shall be of that opinion until I morphine to another one. (I should really leave the puns to Ian.) -
perhaps the worst/most amusing thing you can do to your cat.
Aha! wicked, can't wait for my dog to get home.
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Currently, he is still struggling to deal with the small issue that having stolen money from his friends to buy drugs, they now consider him a thief with a drug problem.
Well, quelle surpreeze, as they say in mock France. I suppose you consider theft to be a victimless crime then? apart from the poor thief of course, who has to go through all that inconvenience of people not trusting him.
Marijuana Use and Bipolar Disorder to be Studied
Is there a connection? Professor Cecilia Hillard of the Medical College of Wisconsin will be doing a 5-year study investigating one possible link between the chemicals in marijuana and the development of bipolar disorder and psychoses.
Hardly being touted as a cure.
Of course, these people would all have been law-abiding citizens if they could just have been allowed to grow their own.
Astounding logic, if it were not a crime, they would not be criminals. Or are you suggesting that marijuana use forces one to commit other crimes? [citation needed]
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And from the " while your down how about a good kicking" department...
The Government has cancelled pumping $430 million into superannuation, tax credits and benefits that would have, in effect, been direct compensation for higher tobacco taxes.
HeraldHow can they say that would be direct compensation for higher tobacco taxes?
It is, in fact, direct compensation for inflation, the rise in the CPI.
To assume all pensioners and beneficiaries are smokers is a crock, a crock of the smellyist shite.Superannuitants will be hit less than younger age groups by the rise in tobacco prices because only 11 per cent of people aged 65 to 74, and 4 per cent of those 75 and over, smoke. Herald
Yeah? hit less? The fact is that they will be hit harder and more of them will feel the pain, the 96% who DON'T smoke.
This is starting to become fun, how much more crap can this Government pump out before they become a laughing stock, before nobody believes a word they say? It's all very well to play up to the beneficiary bashers but by blatantly lying?
They must think we are all stupid. How many people said "They won't go for mining on Great Barrier, it's just a ruse to push other agendas"
Quite a few I reckon. And Crusher Collins getting all "Ain't I just a clever cunt" over the SOG busts and claiming it to be such a major blow to "Organised" crime. Maybe we should keep quiet about all this bollocks and say "Good work National, you're doing just what we wanted" making complete arses of yourselves. -
I wonder how many of the folks busted yesterday were growing dope in their wardrobes specifically to avoid having to deal with gangs to get their pot?.
As usual the cops have no idea what they are dealing with. They spout all kinds of crap, such as the cost to the country of them chasing people who just want to relax after work with a joint, to justify their lame attitude of dealing only with simple, harmless crime. Rather than breaking down the doors of the obvious criminals, the gangs, they continue to harass ordinary people. What is their problem, are they scared of doing their job properly?.
Sure, policing this ridiculous "crime" costs money, even more reason to legalise the weed. -
On the subject of legal stuff becoming illegal by its use, here's an interesting twist. Baking Soda should carry a warning that using it in conjunction with cocaine can lead to a loss of liberty.
Supplying grow lights is the other side of the coin, of course, but does that mean the cops will be turning up at the doors of these guys to tell them that it is not economically efficient to grow hydroponic lettuce? as some top cop stated on BFM this afternoon.
It is rather ironic that, although alcohol does far more harm to society, the Government, yesterday, dismissed a Royal Commission report suggesting increasing tax on alcohol whilst congratulating the Police on their excellent work busting a gardening shop.
'Tis an ill wind that blows no good however, the more this Government pisses people off, the sooner we will be shot of them. -
Erm, Democracy?
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Where do I start?
First. The fact that cannabis is illegal is the major cause of harm.
Why is it illegal. Well as far as I can remember the first legislation passed, by the British Government, was to stop those damned Indians smoking the stuff and start buying Scotch Whiskey, they already had the taxation in place for that and were buggered if they were going to go through all that tax law again.
What are we supposed to do. Are we to just get up in the morning and go off to work, work all day and then return home to sleep?. Are we not allowed to have any thought or activity that is outside those proscribed by those that have clawed their way to the top of the pile? Those that profess to know better than the common man?
How long before they proscribe then prescribe which drug we should take to make us more pliable to their needs?
If smiling people piss you off then you have a problem.It just makes me so angry but I know I am not alone.
The reason SOG were in breach of the law was because the law had been changed on 17 October 2009. Ignorance of the law may be no defence but did the powers that be inform the owners of SOG that their terms of trade had been changed?. The fact that the Police were pursuing Operation Lime before this date is telling.
It just makes me so damned angry. If you are going to enforce a law for the good of the people I, for one, would like to know who those people are.So where, as a society, do we now stand? Alcohol or nothing? Reality TV and Boy Bands.
Slashing my wrists seems like a positive and entertaining move right now.GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
But wait, there's more.
Compare how cannabis is viewed in other countriesThe Legal history of cannabis in the United States is an eye opener.
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.might be a goer in urban areas: aint, in tiny settlements.
Doesn't matter where you are, it's the same sky (as in real sky not Sky TV) The dish does belong to sky but they really don't care what you use it for, they don't take it away if you un-subscribe and they explicitly tell you to leave it behind if you move, to encourage the next owner/tenant to sign up.
The most common problem with setting up freeview is the LNB setting for the lo frequency. It is either 10750 or 11300. So if the thing don't work then change the setting (funnily enough in the settings for the set top box) . I can't for the life of me remember why this is but my set up uses 10750 and one I set up the other week was 1130, I think it depends on which LNB has been set as horizontal or vertical and that varies.
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Well of course, a gentleman would not compete for money, it is theirs by birthright.
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